List the positive and negative power of literature
What is
the positive: to unit, entertain, enlighten, empower
the negative: to divide, confuse, belittle
100
What is actually happening the night Amir, Hassan and Ali are woken by gunshots and explosions? What does this event signify for the Afghani people?
What is the kind is overthrown in a bloodless coup by Daoud Khan. It signifies the beginning of the end of peace for the Afghani people/ the death of the Afghanistan Amir knows.
100
A fear of what may occur
What is trepidation
200
These are the two main branches of Islamic Muslims.
What are Sunni and Shi'a/Shi'ite
200
Without the reader the text is considered ________
What is meaningless
200
List the archetypes of:
Hassan,
Baba, and
Assef
What is
Christ figure,
God the Father,
Anti-Christ
200
What allusion is made during the first tension-filled scene with Amir, Hassan, Assef and Assef's "disciples"? Who is who in the allusion?
What is the story of David and Goliath.
Hassan= David,
Assef=Goliath, and
Amir= Israelites
200
Excessive talking in a rambling manner
What is garrulous
300
These people wish to replace secular law with religious law
What is fundamentalists
300
the two opposing stances in the transactional theory, (pair each with key explanatory words)
What are efferent ( information-based) and aesthetic (senses, feeling, intuition)
300
List three pairs of doubles
What is
Baba and Ali,
Amir and Hassan,
Sanaubar and Sofia
300
The title rendered to both Jesus Christ and Hassan. What is it's meaning?
What is the sacrificial lamb. It means that both of them were pure but were punished for the wrongdoings of others.
300
To be angered by that which is unjust
What is indignation
400
A group of Islamic fighters who enforce laws through cruel and radical means
What is the Taliban
400
Recognizes that readers of different time periods interpret differently.
Also include the label for "what the reading public value and look for in a work"
What is the reception theory and horizon of expectations
400
Baba's nickname and the reason why he is called by that nickname
What is "The Hurricane" because he is "a force of nature"/ impossible to ignore. He has power and is a giant impact on his surroundings.
400
What do the names "Amir" and "Hassan" mean?
What is
Amir: prince, rich, cultivated
and
Hassan: pious, holy, wise
400
To be utterly truthful
What is veracity
500
The 5 pillars of Islam are...
What is the Sahadah, daily prayer, fasting, almsgiving, pilgrimage to Mecca.
500
The two parts of a transactional analysis.
Also, what it is called when those two parts are applied.
What are: how the text acts on the reader and how the reader acts on the text.
Also, the transactional model
500
What is the only sin according to Baba? Give 3 examples of this sin in action.
What is theft:
When you murder you steal life;
When you lie you steal the right to the truth;
When you cheat you steal the right to fairness
500
List a paradox
What is
kites: freedom and imprisonment;
winter: death and cleansing;
Hassan: can't read but reads Amir
500
A strong fear of that which is to come resulting in a physical tremor.